From Here to Eternity (1953)
James Jones’ best-selling, hard-hitting novel of on-duty/off-duty military life among recruits in the pre-Pearl Harbor era of 1941 – on the eve of WWII. A combination romance, combat and melodramatic film set at the Schofield Barracks Army base on Oahu. Sensitive bugler Pvt. Robert E. Lee “Prew” Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is dealt harsh treatment when he stubbornly refuses to fight for the company’s boxing team.
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